Word: descent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sexist, and treat women as mere "satellites" of men. That, simply stated, is the opinion of Author Elaine Morgan. Armed with a vivid imagination and a healthy supply of female chauvinism, she has developed a theory that is even more speculative and sexist than those she decries. In The Descent of Woman (Stein & Day; $7.95), Author Morgan proposes that many of mankind's current physical and behavioral characteristics developed during a period when prehominid apes spent much of their time on sandy shores and in neck-high waters. Led by females, she says, the apes abandoned the dying forests...
...much time to such tiny parts. The greatest disappointment of the opera was the sets. Most ranged from dull to ugly. Surely something more can be done than simply using two screens for a backdrop. The best staging was of the Commendatore's return and the Don's descent into hell. Costuming was colorful and functional, but could not offset the drab backgrounds...
...grant to study the role of igneous rocks in primitive man's music. The rival for the grant, one Hugh Simon, is the villain of the piece, plagiarist and foreigner, with an accent as unequivocally Yugoslavian as Streisand's is New Yorkese. Complications breed complications, and descent into farce takes about all of five minutes...
...family, in New York Mafia usage, is a gang of from 75 to 1,000 men, all of Italian descent, who are bound by a loyalty oath of blood and fire and organized into regimes, or squads, under the command of capos, who in turn take their orders from the underboss and the boss. Family members are often but not necessarily related by blood...
Born of a Jewish Alsatian father and a British mother of Welsh-Irish descent, he spoke four languages at five...